Sound Perimeter
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"Sound Perimeter" is a radio show created and hosted by Lia Uribe, professor of music and an associate dean at the University of Arkansas Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The show is produced by Sophia Nourani and airs on KUAF 91.3 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. "Sound Perimeter" is dedicated to exploring diverse voices and perspectives within the world of music. Its goal is to broaden the audience's understanding and connection to inclusive and diverse musical experiences, with the hope of allowing music to have a transformative impact on their lives.
Latest Episodes
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Today on Sound Perimeter, we are thinking about butterflies, those fleeting flashes of color that feel more like memories than things you can hold. -
Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to deeper histories carried quietly in sound.
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Pianist Gabriela Montero and salsa legend Willie Colón share a stage on Sound Perimeter — two artists from different worlds united by presence, improvisation, and music as a vehicle for truth.
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Today's Sound Perimeter explores musical transformation through Philip Glass's "Metamorphosis I" and Terri Lyne Carrington's "Unconditional Love," featuring performances that shift gradually.
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Today's Sound Perimeter spends time with two bassoon pieces that have stayed close to host Lia Uribe over the years. Music holding memory, shifting shape and meeting us differently each time we return to it. Past and present, coexisting.
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Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces of music, one by French composer Gabriel Fauré, and the other by American composer Meredith Monk.
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Today's Sound Perimeter features Metacosmos by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, a contemporary piece inspired by the idea of crossing into unfamiliar territory, taking listeners inside a universe where forces are felt more than explained.
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Today's Sound Perimeter listens to two different versions of “Motherless Child”, one by Jubilant Sykes, and the other by Cécile McLorin Salvant. Each rendition holds the same spiritual at its center, yet each opens a distinct emotional world. -
Today's Sound Perimeter explores two very different meditations on stillness and motion. Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, performed by Anne Akiko Meyers and Akira Eguchi, takes us into a space of quiet tension and spacious introspection, where repetition becomes a form of listening. And Hiromi Uehara’s Green Tea Farm, from a 2006 solo performance, offers another kind of reflection, rooted perhaps in memory or maybe in a personal sense of landscape. -
Today's Sound Perimeter steps into winter through three very different musical moods.
Lia Uribe is the Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities and a professor at the University of Arkansas. She is also the principal bassoonist of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sophia Nourani is a producer and reporter for KUAF. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in journalism and political science.
Sophia Nourani is a producer and reporter for KUAF. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in journalism and political science.